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I think instead of creating new versions of this same thread every month or two we should just ressurect the old one so (a) people don't repeat themselves and (b) the recommendations are all in the same place.

-Greek Mythsand just like NOBEL wrote: alchemist by Paulo Coelho(that book is amazing)-The Godfather... better than the movie :)

That book is superb. If you have seen the movie - read the book. The author of the Godfather (Mario Puzo) actually did the screen play with Coppola to the movie. The book is Godfather One and the Vito Corleone story of Godfather II. A fantastic book imo.

_________________"Why should i turn the other cheek and get beat?" -Roots Manuva

Also, to get a different POV of the emperilization of Africa -- no clue how to spell that ; ) -- check out Joseph O'Connors Heart of Darkness. It's kinda long & tedious but if you can get through it, you'll really like it. It's sorta like a grown up Lord of the Flies. Or just watch the movie Apocalypse Now.

Honesty.

_________________*~ in tommorow i see no promise & yesterday was like today ~* Atmosphere

My brother was given this book when he was in Bangkok and its really deep -not for the squeemish or fainthearted. The imagery sticks in your mind for time-its called 'The Damage is Done' written by Warren Fellows-a true story of the brutality and terror he endured for 12 years in Bangkok's notorious Bang Kwang prison.

'The prison is a place where sewer rates and cockroaches are the only nutritious food, where autocratic prison guards laugh as they deliver pulverising blows and where the worst punishment is the khun deo-solitary confinement Thai Style.'

This book is written in painful honestly and is from the heart-the stuff this guy had to see and do is unbelievable and i couldn't believe how anyone could survive it.

You wont be able to put this book down and you definately wont forget about the stuff you have read in a hurry>

'The Famished Road' by Ben Okri is a really good book too-set in Africa. I read it 5 years ago so cant remember much of it. Its quite a thick book but you wont be able to stop reading after you have turned the first page. It's a deep book and really forces you to sit back and THINK.

I'm reading it now, its an autobiography of one of the worlds biggest cannabis smugglers who went to oxford uni with none other than Bill Clinton.

Chopper - Mark Read,

Another autobiography, this one is about one of Australias most notorious criminals, who claimed not to be a murderer but a "waste disposal expert". He has never served time in prison for murder despite allegedly killing about 19 people.

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